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The Master of Lake-town
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Three-mana 3/2 deathtouch that converts every point of life loss into mill, and dies into a draw for each seven-card graveyard. A build-around for a mill-drain shell, and a fine attacker-deterrent regardless.
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Gameplay notes
It triggers on EVERY player's life loss — your attacks mill the opponent, their attacks mill you. Decide which graveyard you actually want filled before combat.
Key synergies
The Master mills when players lose life, helping Master's Councillors reach its graveyard-based power bonus, while the Councillors' second-draw trigger can enable The Master's death-trigger card draw. Their abilities reinforce each other strongly, but this is a direct mechanical interaction rather than a build-around relationship.
Gleam of Death mills six cards, putting your graveyard almost immediately at the seven-card threshold for the Master's death trigger while recovering any milled instants and sorceries.
Tom, Bert, and William can sacrifice the Master on demand to draw three cards from its power, then the Master's death trigger can draw up to two more if the graveyards have reached seven cards.
Allure of Power can sacrifice the Master at instant speed, drawing two cards from the spell plus cards from the Master's death trigger once the relevant graveyards contain seven cards.
The Sackville-Bagginses can sacrifice the Master on entry to draw a card and trigger its graveyard payoff, while later sacrificed tokens make the opponent lose life and therefore mill through the Master.
The Great Goblin's repeated 2-damage triggers each become mill-2s through the Master, racing both life total and library.
Choosing Gollum's life-drain mode makes each opponent lose 2 life, so The Master also mills that opponent for two cards. This turns one Gollum trigger into both a life swing and graveyard pressure.
Paying life instead of mana for an exiled spell is life loss, so The Master mills you for that spell's mana value in addition to the life payment; casting several expensive stolen spells can rapidly exhaust your library.
Gollum's enter-the-battlefield trigger makes each opponent lose 2 life, causing The Master of Lake-town to mill that opponent for two cards; recurring and recasting Gollum repeats both effects.
Speak Secrets rapidly fills your graveyard toward seven cards, helping The Master of Lake-town draw an additional card when it dies while also enabling the Bird's own threshold bonus.
Its draw mode makes a player lose 2 life, so the Master also mills that player for two; targeting yourself both draws cards and advances your graveyard toward the Master's seven-card death payoff.
Each ferocious attack draws a card and makes you lose 1 life, which the Master converts into self-mill; the repeated self-mill helps reach seven cards for the Master's death trigger.
Each spell cast using Treasure mana makes you lose 1 life, so the Master mills you for one as well, repeatedly filling your graveyard toward its death-trigger threshold while Smaug supplies cards.
With an enduring story, Balin's hand-cycling trigger deals damage to each opponent equal to the cards discarded; the Master converts that damage into an equally large mill, pressuring both life totals and libraries.
Every noncreature spell causes Gandalf to deal 1 damage to each opponent, and the Master turns each of those pings into an additional mill of one card.
Silvan Rally mills four cards while recovering up to two lands, efficiently advancing your graveyard toward seven cards for the Master's death trigger without fully sacrificing card value.
The chapter III/IV drains cause life loss, which the Master converts into mills toward his seven-card-graveyard payoff.
Paying 2 life to activate Desolation Prowler triggers the Master to mill you for two, helping your graveyard reach seven cards so the Master's death trigger can draw an additional card.